Britney talks about loving the consistency of Vegas versus touring around the world, going to spas and swimming and of course her highly anticipated new album. Most importantlyhowever, she says that she's pretty damn happy right now!( Collapse )

"I'd like to affirm that ANY singer when first at the mic at the start of a long session can make a multitude of vocalisations in order to get warmed up."

"Warming up is essential if you’re a pro, as it is with a runner doing stretches, and it takes a while to do properly. I’ve heard all manner of sounds emitted during warmups. The point is that it is not supposed to be shared with millions of listeners."

Listen to the newly leaked Myah's Britney impression here which sounds exactly like "Britney's" final studio vocals (and not at all like the ones that leaked in July).

If there's one way that Kim Kardashian can command an audience, it's with her enviable curves.The brunette beauty was leaving nothing to the imagination on Thursday night when she stepped out in Paris with beau Kanye West looking topless under an open tuxedo jacket. Kim upstaged her husband with an eye-popping dress that cut down to her middle, using just an oversized jacket to hide her modesty after a day previewing the designer collections at Fashion Week in the city.

As gay law student Connor Walsh, Falahee manages to come across as simultaneously brilliant, arrogant, manipulative, sexually pred-atory, and totally irresistible. “Connor is one of those people no one has ever said no to.”

Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic is coming soon, whether fans like it or not, and the network is beginning to ramp up promotion for the TV movie.

A brief trailer featuring lead actress Alexandra Shipp aired this week, showing the 23-year-old dressed in Aaliyah’s classic baggy jeans and crop-top outfit, showing off some of her dance moves.

Actress/singer Zendaya was originally set to play Aaaliyah in the biopic, but she dropped out, explaining that she wasn’t comfortable with the production.

“I just felt the project wasn’t 100 percent there. I feel [that] production wise everything just felt a little rushed,” she told MTV News back in June. “And I think because she’s someone I admire and I love so much, it can’t be done halfway, or not to the standards I think it should be done at, so I just decided not to do it.”

“Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B” debuts on Lifetime on Saturday, November 15.

After the controversy that surrounded Russia’s anti-gay laws before the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has introduced a specific anti-discrimination clause to its host city contract.

In a letter to prospective bidders for the 2022 Winter Olympics informing them of changes to the contract, which acts as a binding agreement between the IOC and the winner, director of sport Christophe Dubi said the new clause would be based on principle 6 of the Olympic charter.

The clause reads: “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic movement.”

Columbus Short hosts Scandal premiere party in Atlanta. Also releases new song 'Gladiators' on soundcloud.

Columbus Short may have been killed off Scandal, but that's not stopping him from hosting a premiere party for the upcoming fourth season.

The 32-year-old actor portrayed Harrison Wright, the right hand man of star Kerry Washington's character Olivia Pope, for three seasons on the hit ABC political drama.

Short announced in April that he would be leaving the show following his arrest for domestic violence.

He posted a flier on Instagram on Wednesday promoting the premiere party on Thursday at Boogalou Lounge in Atlanta.'GLADIATORS #standup#ItsGoingDown#Gladiator available tomorrow on #ITUNES and the long awaited premiere of #Scandal @kriskelli @bigblockesc #CoStarz,' Short wrote in the caption to his more than 40,000 followers on Instagram.

Short was arrested in February for alleged domestic violence assault against his estranged wife Tanee McCall.

McCall had previously filed for divorce in September 2013 and renewed her petition after the alleged domestic violence incident.The actor also was arrested in March for allegedly assaulting a man during a bar room brawl in Los Angeles.Short during a hearing in May pleaded not guilty to felony battery for the fight.

Were you Team LC or Team Kristin? While perhaps not as iconic a question as "Which Sex and the City woman are you," for fans of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, one of the network's first experimentations with narrative reality that premiered ten years ago this Sunday, it was an important one. During that first season, Lauren "LC" Conrad and Kristin Cavallari were the dominant forces, two high school girls pitted against each other over a boy – the devious but dreamy Stephen Colletti.

Yet to many fans, the Laguna girl they wanted to be most was neither of the leads. It was spunky sidekick Lauren "Lo" Bosworth. Throughout that first season, Bosworth acted as a mixture of sounding board for Conrad and an audience surrogate. Her commentary was always sharp, and she was never afraid to share her thoughts. She was so beloved that she could make a mock pronunciation of Stephen's name quotable.

At the Source, Lo talks about her time on the show, including confronting Christina and Morgan at the salon and lying about the senior trip to Mexico.

Here's Lo talking about graduating from culinary school:

Also, you know what this means? Time to reminisce about Laguna Beach/The Hills. It's been 10 years since the premiere of LB, after all.

To promote her forthcoming memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned," the creator and star of HBO's Girls answered fans' questions in a series of 12 YouTube videos. In the clips, Dunham addressed topics ranging from from feminism to how to handle unfunny friends.

Asked about how she learned to love the skin she's in, Dunham replied, "I went through all of college dressing like a lunatic, wearing neon and raving around and secretly hating myself. I know it's a really, really complicated thing because you sort of want to project the confidence that you don't have to sort of beat people to the punch and critique yourself before they can critique you." The two-time Golden Globe winner continued, "For me, confidence comes from feeling happy with my habits, feeling like I can be proud of my life, feeling like, 'I read a book this week, I ate food that I knew was going to give me energy, I slept enough and I know that I am the best version of myself that I can be.' And that doesn't mean losing 30 lbs. That means taking care of myself and treating myself like precious cargo."

Varun Dhawan and Deepika Padukone have been roped in for the remake of the popular Hollywood film and an adaptation of one of the international bestsellers, ‘The Fault In Our Stars’. Though primarily it’s a love story, the Hindi remake is said to have a twist.

For the Bollywood remake, it is being said that the actors will be playing teenagers. The film is to be produced by Fox Star Studios in association with Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films and is directed by Homi Adajania. It is slated to go on floor in March 2015. Currently, Varun Dhawan is busy wrapping up the Remo D’Souza directorial ABCD 2 along with Shraddha Kapoor and Sriram Raghavan’s Badlapur starring Yami Gautam and Huma Qureshi. Deepika Padukone, on the other hand, is busy with the promotions of her upcoming film Happy New Year. She also has to complete the shoot schedule of Tamasha directed by Imtiaz Ali and Shoojit Sircar’s Piku with Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan. She will also be seen with Ranveer Singh in the Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial Bajirao Mastani.

It’s been a few years since Joanna Newsom last released an album — 2010′s triple-album Have One on Me, for those keeping track — but it’s not like she hasn’t been busy. In fact, she’ll be starring in Inherent Vice, the new Paul Thomas Anderson-directed film based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon. Newsom’s character in the film is Sortilège, an “earth-goddess-like” character who acts as the narrator for the film. Hmmm… Newsom as an “earth goddess.” Yeah, we can see it.

Inherent Vice — which is set in the 1970s and is described as a “stoner detective film” by the New York Times — is also stars Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a Southern California detective who investigates a conspiracy, plus Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Martin Short and Jena Malone. The film debuts Oct. 4 at the New York Film Festival, which runs from today to Oct. 12.

Just in case you’re not on the Radio Disney mailing list, or haven’t had the unfortunate fate of hearing me whimper in despair for the past year, I’ll catch you up: The Jonas Brothers are no more (we’re going to skip right over the discussion about me being way too old to be affected by this). The reason is that Nick Jonas, the youngest, couldn’t bear the constraints of his squeaky clean sugar mold any longer, and, like the Hulk, busted out and tasted an even sweeter freedom. I’m still kind of mad, but this has not stopped me from giving him all my money, so when I heard he was coming to San Francisco, I promptly bought a ticket.

IT'S SOMEONE'S JOB TO RUB JAMIE'S BACK WITH OIL FOR 45 MINUTES...As you'll see, Sam's back scars (from flogging) are shown pretty often. Which means he actually spends the most time out of anyone in the makeup chair. "Sam has the unfortunate task of having a prosthetic back applied every time his 'taps aff!' as the Scots would say," makeup supervisor Kendrick explains. (‘Taps off' means to take your top off in Glasgow, by the way.) "The whole process for Jamie's back scars and many other scars is 2 hours 30 mins and it takes three of us to do. There are two large prosthetic pieces to apply and some smaller ones, and every single section needs to be glued onto Sam's skin, blended and coloured up. However the upside of having scars on, is getting the scars off at the end of the shooting day, this takes roughly 45 mins with oils and lavender flannels, Sam usually enjoys this process!" Somehow we can't feel too sorry for the makeup artists either…( Collapse )

Jessica Alba shows off her flawless features while posing on the cover of Glam Belleza Latina‘s Fall issue.

On the importance of race to her identity: “It’s always been the same. I’ve always felt closer to being a Latina than anything else, because I grew up with my dad’s family, who are Mexican American. I never really identified any other way. But I think that today it’s less and less about having to identify with one race and holding on to that completely. I mean, my kids are African American and Caucasian on their dad’s side, and Latino and Caucasian on my side.”

On the Latinas she admired when she was growing up: “I grew up in Southern California, where Latin culture is just everywhere. I mean, I still love mariachi music! I looked up to Jennifer Lopez. She is someone who broke through barriers, a powerhouse. You know: I could be a dancer, singer, actress, entrepreneur—I can do all of it. And Daisy Fuentes too. What she did with her platform was incredible. It took the rest of the country a second to catch up to Latinas in the United States being mainstream.”

On the differences between her business and her movie career: “Having a company that’s making the world a better place is a life calling. Performing has also been a life calling, but they’re so different. It takes a completely different side of my brain to do one versus the other. But I’m truly very proud of The Honest Company.”

Lady Gaga has released a sneak peek at her Cheek To Cheek LIVE! special with Tony Bennett, which airs on October 24th on PBS. Watch her stunning performance of ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’ below!

Cheek To Cheek LIVE! will also be presented in ultra HD via Amazon’s Instant Video streaming service, becoming the first concert ever to be streamed in such high quality.

O:[Laughs] Can I ask a question now? I think I’ve probably asked you this before, but why don’t you perform with an instrument?Casablancas: There’s an element of performing where I just like to get lost, and I think the technical thing of playing an instrument and singing is like walking a tightrope. I would have to focus on not falling off the rope, and I just want to be able to whirl around like a fool and [Sings, snaps] “shoo-bop-dop”—scat if I want to, point to someone, make melodic or lyrical jokes within the song. And also, I want each guitar to be doing some crazy shit that’s almost too hard to play and sing at the same time.O:Are you good at playing stuff? [Laughs] Casablancas: [Deadpans] I'm really good. Early on, I always wanted to write things. That was my fantasy. I liked composers and more complex songs. Bands like the Doors. But I actually wanted to write all the parts. So I got into music and I would play, but I knew early on that I never wanted to perform an instrument in front of people. I'm not particularly skilled with that, and it's just a whole pressure. I basically learn to play a thing to write it, and then once I write it, I forget and almost never play it.( Collapse )

In the wake of The Fappening an open letter was published by Apple CEO Tim Cook detailing how secure the company's new operating system iOS8 is.According to Yahoo News!, "the FBI and local police forces have grown concerned over the level of encryption in Apple devices, as they claim that it's becoming difficult for them to access iPhones even if they have a court-ordered warrant, if the owner refuses to give up their passcode."

The chief of detectives for Chicago's police department also recently spoke about Apple's new level of encryption.

Speaking to the Washington Post, John J. Escalante said, " Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile. The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I’ve got to get an Apple phone."

The director of the FBI has also expressed concerns stating "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law."

These encryption changes only affect the physical phone. Police would be able to crack any password-protected material that is stored on iCloud.

If you love to hate little miss damaged hair but secretly enjoy her music, you can now download it (legally) for FREE! This won't help her album rise back up the charts, but it'll help her rise on the last.fm charts! Get those scrobbles, gurl.

Janet Yang, who will produce the Alibaba Jack Ma movie, is planning to set up an international co-production. Yang has worked with Oliver Stone and partnered with Lisa Henson. She has been producing flicks,like "Shanghai Calling" (directed by Daniel Hsia) in China.

Ma has been in the headlines this week as it raised its IPO total to $25 billion in its initial public offeringon the New York Stock Exchange - thereby breaking all records. He thanked Americans for giving their trust to the company and for raising "a little money so we can do more things", CNN reported.

The 14 million viewers who tuned in for the premiere of ABC's Shonda Rhimes-produced How To Get Away With Murder were treated to some very hot gay sex scenes and the show's creator Peter Nowalk promises they'll be seeing many more!

E! Online reports:Peter Nowalk, who created Murder, and who worked alongside Rhimes on Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, reveals, "We never got any pushback about [the sex scenes] from the network."

And you can expect a lot more same-sex sex and same-sex romance as the series continues because, as Nowalk puts it, "It's part of life."

For her latest project, Mother Monster and the 88-year-old, who partnered for “The Lady Is A Tramp” in 2011, reunited to produce their jazzy collaborative album Cheek to Cheek.

“I just was shaking in my boots, really. I tell everyone that I kept a whiskey underneath my stool when I was recording with him in the studio because I was so nervous,” Gaga told On Air with Ryan Seacrest about her experience working with Tony. “I feel so humbled to be doing this project with him. This is, for me, the most important album I’ve ever made.”